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| Symphonic Line RG3 and built in phono amp Mattheus, doesn't yr pre have trannies at the MC input? One thing you could try, phone them (in German -- if you speak german, that is).It seems the input transformers are bypassed somehow. All you have to do is put them back in the circuit. It's ... | |
| How to shop for audio I second the advice above. Also, a couple of suggestions or questions, given that your spkrs are wearing that expensive 100kHz hard ceramic tweet:1) If you like yr present Goldmund, then higher powered amps (and perhaps a better performing pre) wo... | |
| Advice on Class A Amp or Integrated please Look at it this way: all other things being equal (which they aren't exactly):1) You should choose an amp that correlates best to yr spkr design (BTW, which Reynaud?). Any other solution is a compromise. Buying an amp "for the future" means that y... | |
| Whats more important? Speaker or the Amp I would agree with the hen/egg paradigm. HOWEVER, atmasphere gives a nice and simple overview of the matter.In this light, a subjective solution to the conundrum is simple: single out which one of these two components is a favourite (as in, I love... | |
| Walls, ceilings, floors -- neighbors and sound As Warnerwh notes -- the longer the wavelength the more sound will propagate and go through anything. In practise, though, upstairs gets more of a blast than downstairs (because you can decouple the spkrs fm the floor)... So if you have no upstair... | |
| cable dielectric cause of artificial sound How 'bout paper, used about 50 years agoWhy not. It's got a dielectric constant of 2 (dry, at normal room temp). I tried it and it didn't make me run out of the room. OTOH, I can't recommend except for very careful and foolproof implementation oth... | |
| cable dielectric cause of artificial sound high purity wire in a vacuumSnag is, the contacts are still exposed and need cleaning periodically... not to mention the difficulty of the implementation (which you do mention).At the end of the day, JD's use of gold wire -- despite the cost -- se... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage vs Extrema As the room is quite small, and you listen to small music ensembles, you can easily live with the Guarneri. As to additional thoughts on other spkrs... Possibly the small Verity audio whatever they're called.IMO though, the SFs are more enjoyable ... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? Newbee...the rise time and, more importantly, the decay time is appropriate to reproduce the sound of a real instrument As you say, the decay is extremely important. This is related to how well the electronics perform reproducing the medium and, i... | |
| First round of auditions disappointing Amandarae -- you built the Orion xover yourself?Wow. You're patient and resilient:) | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? Dear DI don't think there is a "live" system to be bought:); and a music lover can be happy listening to music on a little radio... Guidocorona aptly notes in a recent posting that reproduction is "hyper"-realistic rather than "real". I would subs... | |
| Thinking of modding my 834p, or should I move on? Skushino dida quick scan of (used) phono stages currently for saleHoly Shmoly (or is it schmoly). Come on, Zanth, solder those rca's and buy one of the used phonos there. Really. The few I know are really good (Klimo, Ayre, Xono) and, I myself pro... | |
| A series of underperforming setups...Solution? Just a few summing up suggestions:1) Spend no more money at this point EXCEPT on music.2) Put on music with bass content (try classical with basso continuo for example), and start moving the right spkr forward and inward AS YOU DESCRIBE ABOVE by s... | |
| First round of auditions disappointing I listened to the PMC MB2 and IB2, and they are incredible systems, but both are well over $10K. Their sound is what I'm looking for in a speaker.Then search around for top Pro implementations, active even. Given the space restraints none of the u... | |
| passive preamp matching I am assuming that the cd player has normal input and output values.No, no, your cd player doesn't have an input value -- don;t worry about that. All you're concerned with, is the output of your cdp -- usually 2V and whatever watt rating it has. I... |